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Facebook and Instagram passwords were stored in plaintext, Meta fined

The Data Protection Commission has fined Meta $101M because 600 million Facebook and Instagram passwords were stored in plaintext.

Privacy

October 1, 2024

Facebook scrapes photos of kids from Australian user profiles to train its AI

Meta has admitted to scraping Australian Facebook users' public photos, posts, and other data to train its AI models, including those of kids on adult users' profiles.

Privacy

September 16, 2024

Google admits it can’t quite quit third-party cookies

Google has taken a new turn in its approach to eliminating third-party cookies. This time it's back to the Privacy Sandbox...

Privacy

July 24, 2024

TikTok facing fresh lawsuit in US over children’s privacy

The FTC has referred a complaint against TikTok and its parent company ByteDance to the Department of Justice over violations of children’s privacy in the US.

Privacy

June 28, 2024

Was T-Mobile compromised by a zero-day in Jira?

IntelBroker is offering source code from major companies for sale. Are they demonstrating the value of a zero-day they are also selling?

Privacy

June 24, 2024

The Ticketmaster “breach”—what you need to know

This week, news broke that Ticketmaster had allegedly been breached and 560 million customers’ data had been put up for sale online. The data is said to include...

Privacy

June 3, 2024